This Saturday morning, Gaël Monfils is traveling around the world. The French player impresses, well beyond just the French press, with his ability to perform again and again, at an age when the majority of tennis players have already put away their racket. At 38, he has just won this Saturday the scalp of the American Taylor Fritz, none other than the number 4 seed at the 2025 Australian Open, in the 3rd round of the first Grand Slam of the year.
This resounding success in four sets (3/6, 7/5, 7/6, 6/4), guaranteed him to leave Melbourne with at least 420,000 Australian dollars (a little over 250,000 euros), like the equivalence of the bonus of a round of 16 of this 2025 Australian Open. Facing another American, Ben Shelton, he will aim for the quarters and the bonus of 665,000 $A (€400,000) that goes with it.
23rd in the world on bonus history. Right in front…Taylor Fritz!
This money is to be combined with everything that Gaël Monfils has earned since the start of his career. That’s a total, before starting the Australian fortnight, of 23,398,515 dollars (22,767,655 euros). Including a little over $100,000 in the first days of January, thanks to his success at the ATP 250 tournament in Auckland.
-He is the 23rd player in the history of prize money won in tennis on the world circuit. Ironically, he is ahead of Taylor Fritz, whom he will relegate further than the slim gap of $52,263 which separated the two men, before the Melbourne Major. The 2016 season was financially the best for Gaël Monfils, with 2,957,420 dollars (2,878,645 euros) totaled and a presence in the octet of the best players on the planet, then contested in London.
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